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SINCE broadband began its inexorable spread at the start of this millennium, Internet use has expanded at a cosmic rate. Last year, the number of Internet users topped 2.4 billion — more than a third of all humans on the planet. The time spent on the screen was 16 hours per week globally —…
Gurdon and Yamanaka share Nobel prize for stem cell work By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Prof John Gurdon has been awarded the Nobel prize Related Stories Q&A: Stem cells Nobel prize for chromosome find Nobel prize for viral discoveries Two pioneers of stem cell research have shared the…
Cameraman Hands Nuclear Tapes To CIA, Israel’s Debka Reports October 5, 2012 The Iranian cameraman assigned to document President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent trip to the UN has defected, and new reports claim that with his exit he has handed the US a trove of never-before-seen footage of his homeland’s nuclear facilities. Hassan Golkhanban, a…
Most Important Facebook Number: 140.3 Billion Facebook announced that it had a billion active accounts Thursday; an extraordinary milestone, celebrated with a rather odd ad. But that number, like that ad, is a sideshow. Another extraordinary stat got overlooked, and this is one that really gives you the scale of what the social…
First Images Of Mars Released
Gallery Going Gets Social: TechCrunch ?s ArtSpotter TechCrunch, the start-up news site, has a crush on ArtSpotter, the app that is meant to help gallery goers find works they like. The app has done a pivot, as they say out West, and become more social. The new focus is about discovering art through the…
Speaking to a packed audience Wednesday morning in Geneva, CERN director general Rolf Heuer confirmed that two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are more than 99 percent certain they’ve discovered the Higgs boson, aka the God particle—or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they expected the Higgs to…
May 2012 The World Wildlife Fund released a new report on biodiversity and human interaction with the planet, but there’s one map in particular, highlighted by The Washington Post, that shows just how much damage we’re doing. The map below, taken from the annual Living Planet report, demonstrates how much fish we’re pulling out of the…
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